Word: insurrectionism
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Jack Reed! Trotsky called him "observer and participant, chronicler and poet of the insurrection," and Lenin urged that Ten Days That Shook the World, Reed's report of the Russian Revolution, be "published in millions of copies and translated into all languages." Max Eastman said, "He had a reckless...
One episode after another illustrates the young man's strength. After an abortive attempt at insurrection on his native Corsica, Bonaparte flees the island in a dingy. The boat has no oars, but he has stolen the Tricolor from a government building and makes a jury-rigged sail out of...
Once the leaders of the rebellion were executed or dispersed, the British government admitted its previous errors-tacitly, of course-and sought to redress old wrongs. King George III, who had complained that he would go mad if his American colonies were lost, regained his spirits and proved a forgiving...
Hotheads in the South, which depended on that despicable institution, threatened a second insurrection, but the combined weight of the northern provinces and the British army and fleet was enough to chill even their overheated indignation. Another cooling factor may have been the British offer of financial restitution for freed...
"Constructive engagement" relies on several premises. The first, that no internal resistance movement seriously threatens the stability of the South African regime, is probably a fair assessment. No ideology of mass violence has ever captured the spirit of the Black South Africans; uprisings such as the Soweto riots of 1976...